Reaping what you sow...
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Reaping what you sow is a metaphor that comes from the fields. A similar lesson can be gained from the ocean. In returning to fishing for swordfish after a ten-year break trapping lobsters, boat captain Linda Greenlaw, in her book Seaworthy, describes how one must fish at the right time of month, in the right temperature of water, at the right depth in order to have a successful swordfish catch. Greenlaw pushes her crew to fish right, to do it right; even when the going gets tough, like it does on the high seas of the North Atlantic at the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, do not grow weary of doing it right. For you get what's right out of life when you put what's right into life. This is what Paul means when he writes, "If you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit."
